Monthly Archives: August 2010 Built in the 1870s, the Bell School housed students until 1953. It was given its name as the only school in Monroe county with a bell in the cupola on the roof. This historic one-room school is run by the Monroe County Historical Society. It is open for tours in July and August on Sundays...  A double seat outhouse once used by school children in the late 1800s/early 1900s stands in disrepair in the back yard of the Werley’s Corner One-Room Schoolhouse. Located at the corner of Werley’s Corner Road and Carpet Road in Werley’s Corner, PA which is a remote suburb of Lehigh County, PA. I shot this after...  The history of the Cresco Station goes back to 1857 when a crude depot was built in Oakland Station (later named Cresco) for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad that passed through. Today it stands as a museum featuring relics of Railroad years past as well as artifacts focused around the history of the Cresco...  Original This historic, wooden one-room school is located on Neola Road in Saylorsburg, PA. I don’t know much about it and there was no sign indicating the actual school name or dates of operation. I’m going to continue to research this one. One of five historic one-room schools I shot on Saturday 8-28-2010. I shot...  From my trip to Kreidersville Covered Bridge back on Sunday 4-18-2010. I always seem to visit this particular bridge on days when it storms, or there are no leaves on the trees or there is muddy, slushy snow on the ground. I’ll keep going back to this place until I get some nice golden light...  The Rock Run Mill was built in 1794 by John Stump, a prosperous business man who owned several mills in Harford, Cecil, and Baltimore Counties in Maryland. The original Fitz Water Wheel measured thirty-two feet in diameter, two and one half feet wide with eighty-four buckets, it weighed about 12 tons. The current wheel, a...  A Bumble Bee visits one of the flowers in the back yard. While grabbing the nectar it seeks, it also unknowingly spreads the pollen from previously visited flowers, stuck to its legs, to this flower, ensuring the prosperity of the garden continues on. For more information on bees, visit this page Original |
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